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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Life

Humanity

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell

Life

Blame

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Life

Waiting

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

Life

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Life

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.